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The alternatives are not placid servitude on the one hand and revolt against servitude on the other. There is a third way, chosen by thousands and millions of people every day. It is the way of quietism, of willed obscurity, of inner emigration.

— J.M. Coetzee


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

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🦋 QE Roughs

Andy Metcalfe has, in his Soundcloud role as flatpicker, been posting some rough mixes from the Queen Elvis sessions -- that is one of the Hitchcock records that I'm least familiar with and it is great listening to these versions.

Dig it!

posted evening of Thursday, May 24th, 2012
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Sort of not crazy about "Knife" (which sounds to my ear maybe like a draggy/decrepit Syd Barrett tune...) and unsure about "Live Man Die," but "Mr. Rock n Roll" and "Wax Doll" are astounding.

posted evening of May 24th, 2012 by Jeremy

nice find.

this Knife is pretty much identical to the album version - just mixed a little differently.

posted morning of May 30th, 2012 by cleek

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